"Captain Bo, are these this year's immigrants?" Canghaijun Nangongxin was not used to riding on a horse, so he felt a little awkward when he spoke.
The Yi people are a fishing and hunting people with almost no animal husbandry, let alone the tradition of raising horses.
If they could have cavalry, even a few thousand cavalry, they would have been ruled by Zhizi Korea and then surrendered to Wei Dynasty in the past few hundred years.
In fact, the most commonly used weapon in the Yiren army is the harpoon.
Even the prongs on the harpoon are basically made of wood and metal, which is too luxurious for Hao people.
That is to say, after the Han Dynasty accepted the surrender of the Yao people, they sent troops and merchants and brought a large number of metal products, which allowed the Yao people to escape from the Stone Age and successfully enter the Bronze Age. The black-hearted merchants used the outdated materials of the Han Dynasty.
Second-hand bronze products were exchanged for a large number of local specialties, such as ginseng, bear paws, bear skins, tiger bones, mink skins, etc.
This is certainly very deceiving, but the problem is that it is actually difficult for Yi people to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of bronze and iron. Moreover, where Yi people live, the winter is too long, which means that, in fact, bronze products here are more expensive than iron tools.
Durable and more practical.
Bo Shi nodded: "These people are all family members of the Huyi Army. Today is the first batch, and there will be four more groups of military family members, totaling more than 3,000 people..."
For Bo Shi, no matter how submissive Yaoren seems, nothing is more reassuring than immigrants from China.
The lessons learned since the Spring and Autumn Period also tell Bo Shi that China's external expansion will only be stable when Chinese immigrants and civilized natives make up the majority.
But Nangong Xin didn’t understand this at all.
The history of Yi people may be very long.
But they never had a tradition of recording their history.
This means that they have not even developed the most basic sense of national identity.
Therefore, for Nangong Xin and most of the Yiren nobles, nation, independence, autonomy, what is that, and can it be eaten?
In essence, the ideology of the hunting and fishing people is the same as that of the nomads. If you have breasts, you are a mother. If you can get benefits for them, why not call them daddy?
For today's Hao people, the troops and merchants from the Han Dynasty have proven that they can bring them benefits.
Even Nangong Xin's life was saved by the Han Dynasty people.
In March this year, Nangong Xin became seriously ill.
In the history of Yi people, getting sick was basically equated with death, let alone a serious illness.
However, this year, Nangong Xin received treatment from doctors of the Han Dynasty in Xinhua City. As a result, he recovered.
This made Nangong Xin very grateful, and at the same time he strengthened his determination to join the Han Dynasty. If he did not integrate into the Han Dynasty, his descendants would have no choice but to live in barbarism and fear.
This year the Han Dynasty began to immigrate.
This made Nangong Xin even happier.
Because he knew that only if there were more immigrants from the Han Dynasty, there would be more business travelers, officials and doctors from the Han Dynasty.
Last year, there were only 2,400 Han Chinese in Xinhua City.
This year, the number is likely to exceed 10,000.
This means that Yiren can have a stable winter this winter.
Furthermore……
"The Emperor also promised me that he would send a Mohist to help us fish this year..." Nangong's calculations began to rattle in his confidence.
The last time he went to Chang'an, the emperor had personally told him that this year, the Han Dynasty's father decided to help the Yi people and greatly increase their catch.
Although, Nangong Xin didn't quite understand what Han Dynasty's father did to greatly increase the catch.
But the Han Dynasty Mohist who came to Xinhua City last year to guide the Yi people in building houses and using tools convinced Nangong Xin that this could definitely be done.
For the Hao people, the fishing season from June to September every year is a top priority that affects their life, death and destiny.
So, looking at these immigrants, Nangong Xin was also smiling.
Can he stop laughing?
According to the "Han Yi Gui Yi Ling" of the Han Dynasty aristocrat who is the Hu Yi Captain and the Xinhua Order next to him, any Yi family that has a daughter married to a Han or a male who joins the Hu Yi Army can do so.
Moved to settle near Xinhua City.
The Han Dynasty would build a strong house for these settled Hao people to keep out the cold and warm in winter, and at the same time guide them to cultivate the land using the advanced technologies and methods of the Han Dynasty.
Since last year, more than 2,000 Yi families have settled near Xinhua City, forming more than a dozen villages of various sizes.
So far, the effect of this policy is very good.
Among the Yiren tribe, his prestige and status are also increasing day by day.
Even many wild people who had not favored him in the past came running and knelt at his feet, praying for submission.
This made Nangong Xin very happy.
"Today, there are more than a thousand Yiren women waiting in the village..." Nangong Xin said to Bo Shi with a smile.
The union between a Han man and a Yi woman became a favorite story between the Han and Yi ethnic groups last year.
For Yi Ren, exchanging an insignificant woman in the family for a better life in the future is a very good deal!
Everyone in the tribe is extremely satisfied with this.
For a tribe with a total population of two to three hundred thousand, losing thousands of young women is not a traumatic problem.
Although there are some noises in the tribe, overall, the problem is not big.
Because although the Hao people lost the young women in their tribe, they could still get more young women from the Ye Hao and Fuyu people.
Bo Shi was very happy after hearing this.
What is political achievement?
This is political achievement!
Last year, he facilitated nearly a thousand Han and Han marriages in Xinhua City, which greatly pleased Chang'an Emperor Long Yan, who received three edicts of commendation.
Thousands of marriages are going to happen this year, so on the emperor's side, isn't his position slowly rising?
When something happens next time, the Queen Mother of the East Palace will have a reason to speak to him.
In the future, I may not be able to live the same addiction as Dou Ying.
"But..." Nangong Xin stopped his smile, hesitated, and finally looked at Bo Shidao: "There is something I think would be better to tell the captain..."
"Canghaijun just says it's okay..."
"A few days ago, a tribe in my tribe was attacked more than 800 miles away from Xinhua City. Only a few dozen tribesmen escaped back..." Nangong Xin bowed his hands and said, "Please ask the captain to be the leader."
Call the shots!”
"Who is he?" Bo Shi asked seriously.
The purpose of the establishment of the Huyi Army was, firstly, to maintain the existence of the Han Dynasty in this black land, and secondly, to protect the emperor's vassal Yi people.
Now, the people of Yi are under attack. As the captain protecting Yi, Bo Shi must take a stand.
"Reporting to the captain, we are from Xianbei!" Nangong Xin said with a bitter smile. In the past twenty years, the biggest enemies of the Yi people, besides winter, were Xianbei and Wuheng.
These two powerful nomadic tribes often invaded the Yi people's tribe and kidnapped their populations.
In the past, Nangong Xin could only admit that he was unlucky.
Now, with a backer, Nangong Xin decided to settle old and new accounts with the Xianbei people. (To be continued.)
